How to Schedule Azure Batch Jobs to Run Only on Weekdays and Skip Weekends?

Question

Hi,

I'm looking to configure an Azure Batch job schedule to run only on weekdays and skip weekends. From my research and forum interactions, I understand that the Weekdays attribute has been deprecated in the latest version.

Any guidance or examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thaks in advance

Answer 1

Hello Stanley Ramakrishnan

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform, thanks for posting your query here.

You can use the Schedule property to specify the recurrence pattern for the job.

Here's an example of how to configure an Azure Batch job schedule to run only on weekdays and skip weekends using the Schedule property:

{
  "id": "myJobSchedule",
  "displayName": "My Job Schedule",
  "schedule": {
    "weekDays": [
      "Monday",
      "Tuesday",
      "Wednesday",
      "Thursday",
      "Friday"
    ],
    "startTime": "09:00",
    "endTime": "17:00",
    "interval": {
      "minutes": 30
    }
  },
  "jobSpecification": {
    "poolInfo": {
      "poolId": "myPool"
    },
    "jobManagerTask": {
      "id": "myJobManagerTask",
      "commandLine": "cmd /c echo Hello World"
    }
  }
}

In this example, the weekDays property specifies an array of weekdays on which the job should run. The startTime and endTime properties specify the start and end times for the job, and the interval property specifies the frequency at which the job should run.

You can modify this example to suit your specific needs.

Hope this helps.